My mother was a reading teacher. She bought all the books her kids read each year. She’d hand them out. The kids would keep them for a few weeks, and usually return them.
Every year I would schlep several boxes of her books, between home and her classroom. 30 copies of this. 40 copies of that. Maybe a couple dozen titles. I personally would’ve appreciated it, if the school bought the books, so I didn’t have to carry them all twice a year.
Similar to my ex. After the first couple years making a classroom good for the kids, spending got less. Still well over $300, and spending jumped again with a new classroom. However after that initial spend, her biggest cost is stocking a classroom library. While the school mostly took care of the assigned books, she includes a lot of “book of your choice” in her lessons so needs a good assortment at each level
My mother was a reading teacher. She bought all the books her kids read each year. She’d hand them out. The kids would keep them for a few weeks, and usually return them.
Every year I would schlep several boxes of her books, between home and her classroom. 30 copies of this. 40 copies of that. Maybe a couple dozen titles. I personally would’ve appreciated it, if the school bought the books, so I didn’t have to carry them all twice a year.
Similar to my ex. After the first couple years making a classroom good for the kids, spending got less. Still well over $300, and spending jumped again with a new classroom. However after that initial spend, her biggest cost is stocking a classroom library. While the school mostly took care of the assigned books, she includes a lot of “book of your choice” in her lessons so needs a good assortment at each level